Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies

Agenda

Upcoming events

10 - 12 November 2026, All day

NISIS Autumn School ’26: “Religious, Social and Political Non-Conformism in Islam”

In older works on Islamic history, it was not uncommon for academic authors to refer to certain trends within Islam as “orthodox”. While this label, which ...

15 April 2027, All day

NISIS Conference in collaboration with Groningen University – 15 April, ’27

Beyond the Majority: Agency, Identity, and Memory among Non-Majority Communities in Muslim-Majority Contexts This one-day conference, organized by NISIS ...

Previous events

13/07/2026 -
17/07/2026

Call for applications for the second graduate school of Islamic Humanities

29/05/2026

Workshop “Forgotten Conflicts. Sudan and Yemen” | 29 May ’26

06/05/2026

Ilan Pappé: Disrupting the Narrative on Palestine (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 06/05)

29/04/2026

Palestine Talks Spring 2026

23/04/2026

NISIS networking event: Remembering the old, building the new | 23 April ’26

14/04/2026 -
17/04/2026

ENIS Spring School ’26: ‘Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism’

26/03/2026

NISIS Conference in collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven | 26 March ’26

26/01/2026 -
30/11/2025

RUG Winter School ’26: Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas

08/12/2025

Workshop ‘Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities’

08/12/2025

Report workshop: “Syria One Year After the Revolution: The Role of Women and Minorities”

12/11/2025

2025 Juynboll Lecture by Ahmed El Shamsy | Wednesday November 12, 17:00 hrs

29/10/2025 -
31/10/2025

NISIS Autumn School ’25: “Gender relations in pre-modern and modern Muslim contexts”.

17/10/2025

3rd Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting – 17 October ’25

09/10/2025 -
10/10/2025

CfP for international conference: “Digitalizing Islamic Environmental Narratives: Exploring Faith and Ecology on Social Media.”

18/08/2025 -
29/08/2025

7th Leiden Summer School: ‘Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World’

14/07/2025 -
20/07/2025

Islamic Studies Summer School: Approaches to the study of Islam

27/05/2025 -
30/05/2025

CfP: ENIS Spring School ’25: ‘Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity’

22/05/2025 -
23/05/2025

Call for Papers: Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World

03/04/2025

NISIS/ Clingendael Workshop ‘The Political Relevance of Islamism in the Contemporary Middle East’

07/02/2025

Short report NOSTER Midyear Meeting by Martha Gabriela Sanchez – student assistant at NISIS